On January 22, 2014 SD Budget & Policy Institute shared its research on education funding and teacher salary trends through testimony to the SD Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee.

Testimony highlights included:

SD k-12 per student funding (from all sources) is 24% lower than our regional states. Drilling down into funding sources – federal, state and local—reveals SD has 29% higher average per-student federal funding, 5% lower in per-student local funding and 53% lower per student state funding.